I go to the Yahoo website, and I'm stunned when I look at the current events part on the right side because the headline reads that Grant Hackett smashed Ian Thorpe's Swimming World Record. They only have a few line items there, so I never would have believed that swimming would make it onto that short list of current events. They have a nice story about the 800m race, and they talk about the epic battle in 2001 in Japan, where Thorpe beat Hackett and took the record.
So I eagerly log onto usa-swimming and the headline reads, "Jensen sets new American Record". So Jensen got the headline even though he lost by about seven seconds. And about in paragraph five it says the race was won by Hackett in world record time. I'm sure virtually every national swim federation is like this - talking up their swimmers to the exclusion of others. But if a world record falls, shouldn't that be the headline?
I go to the Yahoo website, and I'm stunned when I look at the current events part on the right side because the headline reads that Grant Hackett smashed Ian Thorpe's Swimming World Record. They only have a few line items there, so I never would have believed that swimming would make it onto that short list of current events. They have a nice story about the 800m race, and they talk about the epic battle in 2001 in Japan, where Thorpe beat Hackett and took the record.
I think Yahoo selects current events for you based partially on your past selections. Big Yahoo is watching. Double plus good.
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So I eagerly log onto usa-swimming and the headline reads, "Jensen sets new American Record". So Jensen got the headline even though he lost by about seven seconds. And about in paragraph five it says the race was won by Hackett in world record time. I'm sure virtually every national swim federation is like this - talking up their swimmers to the exclusion of others. But if a world record falls, shouldn't that be the headline?
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I go to the Yahoo website, and I'm stunned when I look at the current events part on the right side because the headline reads that Grant Hackett smashed Ian Thorpe's Swimming World Record. They only have a few line items there, so I never would have believed that swimming would make it onto that short list of current events. They have a nice story about the 800m race, and they talk about the epic battle in 2001 in Japan, where Thorpe beat Hackett and took the record.
So I eagerly log onto usa-swimming and the headline reads, "Jensen sets new American Record". So Jensen got the headline even though he lost by about seven seconds. And about in paragraph five it says the race was won by Hackett in world record time. I'm sure virtually every national swim federation is like this - talking up their swimmers to the exclusion of others. But if a world record falls, shouldn't that be the headline?
Americans think they own the internet - remember this?
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>>> it was off-topic. Your reasons do not trump the newsgroup charter.
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>> Our constitution guarrantees the right of free speech.
I think they probably made a mistake - they don't normally mention non-American winners do they?
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I go to the Yahoo website, and I'm stunned when I look at the current events part on the right side because the headline reads that Grant Hackett smashed Ian Thorpe's Swimming World Record. They only have a few line items there, so I never would have believed that swimming would make it onto that short list of current events. They have a nice story about the 800m race, and they talk about the epic battle in 2001 in Japan, where Thorpe beat Hackett and took the record.
So I eagerly log onto usa-swimming and the headline reads, "Jensen sets new American Record". So Jensen got the headline even though he lost by about seven seconds. And about in paragraph five it says the race was won by Hackett in world record time. I'm sure virtually every national swim federation is like this - talking up their swimmers to the exclusion of others. But if a world record falls, shouldn't that be the headline?
